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			<h1 id="linkliar-handbook">LinkLiar Handbook</h1>

<p>This is an intuitive status menu application written in Swift to help you spoof the MAC addresses of your Wi-Fi and Ethernet interfaces.</p>

<p><img src="screenshot_3.0.1b.svg" alt="" /></p>

<h2 id="-what-is-a-mac-address-and-why-would-i-change-it">📱 What is a MAC address and why would I change it?</h2>

<p>When you turn on the Wi-Fi of your MacBook, it sends out a unique identifier - its MAC address
(this has nothing to do with Apple’s “Mac”).
Everyone nearby may freely collect this unique identifier and use it to track your movement.</p>

<p>Did you know that your phone does <em>not</em> send out its Wi-Fi identifier, but rather a random, fake one?
This is to protect you from the common practice of businesses to track your movements when you walk around in stores.</p>

<p>With LinkLiar you can achieve the same privacy for your MacBook.
Though the MAC address is hardwired into your Wi-Fi network card, you are free to modify it.</p>

<h2 id="-can-i-trust-this-app">🐷 Can I trust this app?</h2>

<p>I’m an independent developer who invested some time into creating this app.
It is open source, so you have full insight into how it works.
Click on the <a href="https://github.com/halo/LinkLiar">Octocat</a> in the top right corner to find out more.</p>

<p>If you’re concerned with giving this application administrator privileges, you should build it from scratch using Xcode.</p>

<h2 id="-is-this-app-maintained">🔩 Is this app maintained?</h2>

<p>Every now and then I find the time to develop new features.
If you’d like to motivate me, open this project on <a href="https://github.com/halo/LinkLiar">Github</a>
and give it a ★ in the top right corner. It helps me prioritize among my projects.</p>

<h2 id="-which-other-apps-are-out-there">🔦 Which other apps are out there?</h2>

<p>Your MacBook already ships with the tool to change your MAC address.
You would just have to enter <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">ifconfig en0 ether aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff</code> in a Terminal.
But that’s cumbersome, so tools like LinkLiar are supposed to make it easier for you.</p>

<p>For macOS, the more prominent graphical apps are
<a href="https://airpass.tiagoalves.me/">Airpass</a> (open source),
<a href="https://wifispoof.com">WiFiSpoof</a> (commercial) and
<a href="http://www.deepthought.ws/software/software-osx-macdaddyx/">MacDaddyX</a> (free).
Then there is the command line tool <a href="https://feross.org/spoofmac/">SpoofMAC</a>,
which unfortunately has no graphical interface.</p>

<h2 id="-whats-it-with-the-name">🕹 What’s it with the name?</h2>

<p>The MAC address is sometimes referred to as the <em>link-layer</em> address. You figure out the pun :]</p>

<h2 id="-special-thanks">💕 Special Thanks</h2>

<p>The icon in the status bar was created by the never-tired
<a href="https://iconmonstr.com/about">iconmonstr</a> (I slightly modified it).</p>

<h2 id="️-whats-next">▶️ What’s next?</h2>

<p>Learn where to <a href="installation.html">download LinkLiar…</a></p>

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